Bulletproof your CI pipeline: Using APM to augment your automated performance testing (sponsored by AppDynamics)

As release velocity increases, teams are finding innovative ways to detect and resolve performance issues earlier in the development cycle. Brad Stoner explores how to implement an automated performance testing strategy and explains how leveraging APM (application performance management) tools can reduce time to market while increasing overall quality.

Ensuring applications, services, and infrastructure perform under user load is as critical as ensuring application functionality, when your brand and customer base is on the line. Yet as release velocity increases, is there still room for performance testing and capacity validation? If your test plan requires two weeks to execute and you receive new builds every few hours, your current answer may be no. Brad Stoner explains how to segment a test strategy to find performance issues faster and earlier in the SDLC. Reducing human involvement and manual root cause isolation is a key pillar to removing the QA bottleneck from CI/CD deployment pipelines. Executing a test strategy that decouples infrastructure testing from code and deployment testing is another critical step to accelerate this process. Brad shares examples full lifecycle performance testing implementations at each development and delivery stage, from a simple load profile on a single server to full-scale soak tests over several days. This session is sponsored by AppDynamics.